I'm currently a moderator at 2 sites, this one and a sportscard trading forum (over 7000 members, but I think only about 1000 are pretty active). At both sites, I've only became a moderator this year. Its a great learning experience in learning how to manage forums. Both have quite a bit of responsibility and require good decision-making skills. But has anyone ever heard of any forums that pay their staff anything? Just curious...

You're a moderator for your own fun and to help people. If you want to be payd for it they will search for someone else because there are (i think) lots of people who want to be moderator.

Jup, and I've never heard of any paid modder-eters (dutch joke), I guess it should be considered an honor to be a mod.

Quite right. It is fun and I do like helping people. I find my eyes are especially attracted to the words "Help", "How Do I..." and "Question About".


I hope you didn't get the impression that I wanted "them" to pay me, especially since nowhere in my initial post did I state that I'm looking to be paid. In the "real world", people are employed if the employer feels an employee can help generate revenue and justify the cost of hiring that person. I don't get the impression that this forum takes in enough revenue to justify paying moderators. That this forum is offering free webhosting is more than generous IMHO. The members and staff here also contribute a wealth of knowledge that is priceless IMHO and I personally benefit from their wisdom and knowledge. Believe me, I don't plan on going anywhere. Especially since, realistically, I'm a newbie moderator.

Haha, what do you mean by "paid moderator"? Do they get paid by cash? LOL

I am a member of admin group of a forum. I dont think moderators (including me) are working for money even though some of them really deserve it for their huge contributions. As a moderator, it gives you honour and reputation in a forum and some administrative rights as well. If you dont do what a mod should do and demand for money from a community then a lot of people are willing to jump into your position now.

There is no employment in a community where people sharing ideas and helping each other. It's like we are volunteers!!!

Oh you mean you're not being paid? hehe jokes

I took up this position out of volunteering to help, plus the forums were pretty new then and it seemed like a good idea to be involved in the community as it was becoming quite hard to keep everything in order.

The payment out of it, I guess you get respect and someone to look up to, and you get to make (break) the rules! (joking the breaking part)


MC

Hmm, I don't think anyone would pay someone to moderate their forums online -maybe except big dumb companies who don't know where to put all their extra money-, because forums don't really require moderators to function properly. But, if it were a real forum (though I can't think of what a real forum would be) with real people talking, moderatorsof that forum might be paid to keep people quite and talk one at a time. OK, that sounded weird. Anyway, there are some people who get paid moderating, I believe, because they work in a support forum where they get paid to answer questions, and they also have to moderate at the same time too. Am I too confusing?

So!! Is http://www.experts-exchange.com/ a forum? Certainly, those experts there get paid to answer questions and users have to pay for subscription.

People do get paid, think of webhosts they get paid for being support etc? Well not on free hosts but on huge companys they would be. That wpuld be my ideal job though, although id probably fight for it to become an SMF forum

LOLOL jipman, but I am a moderator, not a modder-eter (am dutch too).

I accepted the moderator position here simple because I thought it would be a nice thing to do. It's fun, at times, yes, it can get annoying. Especially when you've just read through a big part of the forum to delete the random "LOL" posts, you've just checked for copied posts and you go back and see that some dude copied an entire article. That can be frustrating. But that is why we're a team, we can vent about it as well to each other

Getting paid to do this?? Well, to some extend we are getting paid to be contributing members here, we get hosting (excellent hosting if I may add that ). Being a moderator brings forth some responsibilities but also some fun. You get to know the other mods/admins and you probably become friends a lil You learn from eachother etc. You know what I mean (well I hope so LOL)

Maybe I am the only mod that actually feels proud to be a mod, it's an opportunity given to me. A learning experience We may not get paid, but for some of the youngens amongst the mods, we can note our modding experience as extra curricular activity on our resumés